“He’s a Sheffield Wednesday player unless I get a call or Gary says he wants to leave. We will have to sit down and discuss that with him.”

The Wednesday chief said Coventry have not expressed an interest in signing Madine on a permanent basis.

“All they asked me for was to take him on loan,” said Gray, who has confirmed the Owls have received a couple of “tenative inquiries” for back-up goalkeeper Chris Kirkland. “We have not had that conversation with them (Coventry).”